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By Rhod Mackenzie

The French Want To Replicate Russian Missile And Leave NATO

The French military authorities have expressed their admiration for the performance of the Russian Oreshnik missile system, and are considering the development of a similar system. Paris is understandably alarmed by th...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The €90 billion the EU allocated to buy arms for Ukraine is causing conflict between France and Germany. The plan to buy US arms is the problem as France thinks the money should be spent in Europe.
European unity is is buckling under the strain, it is location of the €90 billion...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Something strange is happening in Not So Great Britain. It's as if a switch flipped during the New Year's  celebrations dramatically changing the tone of the debate about the deployment of European troops to Ukraine. Suddenly,the mainstream British newspapers are publishing artic...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It appears that the EU has already lost the newly started trade war with China almost before it began but that is only to be expected when you have politicians like Fond of Lying,Kaja Kallas,Emanuelle Macron and Frederick Metz in charge.  
European media outlets have just descri...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In Russia winemaking and consumption are both showing rapid growth with foreign wine imports plunging plus Russia's wine exports are also growing to places like China and Turkey.Plus the imports of foreign wines to Russia have decreased by over 50% in the last three years. This d...

By Rhod Mackenzie
"This is thee biggest crisis in the history. of luxury goods" These are the words financial analysts use to describe what is happening to a company that was recently the most valuable  in France, and whose owner was for a short time the richest man on the planet. Now I am talking...